Sentences with phrase «book during high school»

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He's the author or co-author of three books, including The New York Times bestseller «Taking Time Off,» which encouraged young adults to take a year off between high school and college or sometime during their undergraduate years.

During high school I found that * almost * everyone who went to church didn't accept what «the Good Book» has to offer.

I read so many books during my middle school and high school I was worried I would wear out my eyes!

When a geeky high - school valedictorian throws caution to the wind by expressing his love for a popular cheerleader during his graduation speech, life finally starts to get interesting in this coming - of - age comedy adapted from the book by journalist / author / screenwriter Larry Doyle.

Whether Sylvia will hook up again with her ex or Prudie (Emily Blunt)- an insecure high school language teacher who throws in French phrases during book discussions, to the annoyance of everyone - will rediscover what she saw in her oafish husband parallels the second - chances theme of «Persuasion.»

During their fall semester, high school seniors Alysun Theobald and Angie Lockhart, in Louisville, Kentucky, decided to gather books for the nonprofit organization International Book Project to send to needy children abroad.

The major substantive chapters of the book place Swedish expenditure and achievement in comparative perspective (in both, Sweden rates high); show that the decline in education inputs during the 1990s worsened the teacher - student ratio and teacher quality; review the international research on the effects of school choice; and test for the effects of school choice in Sweden on achievement.

But after working in high - poverty schools on both coasts, she became frustrated with the lack of books available to her students at school and during the summer.

Among many well - publicized incidents during the early 1990s, students at Taylor Allderdice High School in a prime Pittsburgh suburb collaborated in a systematic cheating ring, buying and selling homework from one another, stealing tests, and smuggling reference books into exams.

In particular, prior research studies have shown that access to books during the school day leads to higher test scores and academic achievement, even offsetting the -LSB-...]

During the talk, titled «The Elusive Quest for Ambitious Schooling: Limits and Possibilities of the American High School,» Mehta reported on his book - length research on fostering «deeper learning» in American public schools.

The Fighter has proved very popular in France (where it was first released) as a book to accompany the study of World War II during the first year of High School.

It is not a preachy book about how the rights or wrongs about life, especially in high school, should be / not be lived by any individual, nor about how one should react to any individual and their lifestyle choice, it is simply a story about a girl, and how she must handle her choices made during her high school years and beyond.

During down time Jaime loves to read books, travel up north to her families cabin in Kalkaska and hanging out with her high school friends.

Special pricing, booking procedures and minimum stay requirements may apply during special event periods including Christmas / New Year, Easter, School Holidays and other high season times.

The two volumes of her comic book Persepolis tell her story of growing up in Iran during the revolution that deposed the shah, the subsequent war with Iraq, her exile in Austria during her high - school years, and her return to her homeland.